Squirrel kill rap is ‘nuts’

Squirrel kill rap is ‘nuts’

Put squirrels in a sack and kill them with a single blow to the head to avoid prosecution

In the first case of its kind, Raymond Elliot, 58, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a grey squirrel. [>

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He set up a trap in his garden after squirrels targeted his bird-feeders. [>

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Burton magistrates gave Elliot, from Branston, Staffs, a six-month conditional discharge and £1,547 fine to cover the RSCPA’s investigation and legal costs.[>

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Elliot said: “This is injustice. It’s legal to poison squirrels a few months out of the year. It takes a few days for them to die – yet what I did, killing them within a minute, is judged as inhumane.”[>

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Forestry Commission advice tells people to place squirrels in a sack and hit them with a single blow to the head to kill them.[>